Manchester NH Dec 9 1847
My Dear Marianne,
You will be disappointed
to learn that I shall not be at home
before Monday forenoon, & then only
for a few hours, previously to going
to Worcester. I find that I cannot lecture
here until tomorrow night & on Sat
urday evening Mr Brooks from New
York is to lecture here on National
Reform and the people ~~here~~ are de
sirous that I should stay to partic-
ipate in the meeting. I am very
desirous of seeing Mr Brooks & shall
not be able to do so unless I stop here
He is son to one of the largest land-holders
in Western New York, but is wholly opposed
to the injustice of the present system
of land monopoly. I think that by stay
ing, I may be able to do something for
the paper. I have not been able to anything
thus far. I shall attend the meeting of the
Manchester Union tonight, & endeavor to
have them do something. I am not discour
aged at all, but I dont [sic] know how we are
to get on with the paper. I must lecture
in order to obtain subscribers to it. It
must sustain itself by the National Reform
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& Protective Union Movement. The meeting
on Saturday evening, will be of service
to us.
My Dear I don’t believe you will think me
careless of you. Ours is the common lot
of humanity today, trial & toil, but after
all we do not suffer anything in com
parison with the millions. And the only
comfort we get is through efforts to im
prove the condition of our fellows. When
I am mingling with the uninformed,
worn, & degraded working-classes I [------]
ly feel how lonely & thankless is my
task, how full of repugnance; but then
the other feelings always follow, of thank
fulness that it is so- that I am not, & can
not be happy whilst the meanest of my
fellows suffers. The harvest will [-------]
follow the trustful sowing- rest the
present toil: and if I do not succeed as
I would in this thing- there are other
spheres of labor & nothing in the end will
be lost; & triumph will be seen in all
that will have been done. I am not going
to be cloudy because the sky may
be so. Be bright & calm & the rays of your
peace will gleam gladness into my heart
Love to all- Ever thine John.
My cold is better & I am pretty well.
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[address]
Mr B. F Dwight
For Mrs John Orvis
Care of Coffin & Weld
Boston
